Protecting-roof for haystacks and the like and process for its manufacture.



F. ADAMBG.

PROTECTING ROOF FOR HAYSTAGKS AND THE LIKE AND PBOGESS FOR ITS MANUFACTURE.

' APPLICATION FILED MAX. 6, 1914.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914-4 FIG. 1.

THE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHOTO LITHO.. WASHINGTON, D. C

IINITED snares PATENT orrion FRANZ ADAMEC, or manrnvovns, NEAR BUDIN, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

PROTECTING-ROOF FOR HAYSTACKS AND THE LIKE AND PROCESS FOR ITS MANUFACTURE.

Application filed March 6, 1914. Serial No. 822,977.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ AnAMEo, a subject of the Austin-Hungarian Emperor, and resident of Martinoves, near Budin, Bohemia, AustriaI-Iungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in.

Protectingdtoofs for Haystacks and the like and Processes for Their Manufacture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a protecting roof made of straw and the like for hay-stacks and the like, as well as to a process for its manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the various phases of the manufacture; Fig. 2 shows the protecting roof manufactured in this way, viewed from above. Fig. 3 shows the roof rolled up and Fig. 4 shows the roof in use.

The protecting roof has a shape of a surface of a cone A (Fig. 2) cut open along one of its generatries, and is made of straw or a similar material. It is made with the aid of a pyramid shaped framework B (Fig. 1) which is composed of rods 1, connected together at the summit, and secured at the bottointo a frame 2 which forms the out line of the base surface of the pyramid.

Each rod 1 is provided on its outer surface with several pegs 3; at a short distance from the frame, tight wire or rope 4: is secured to the rod in parallel relation to the frame. Under the pegs 3, ropes 5 are tightened around the framework B,in parallel relation to the frame 2; the ends of these ropes 5, however, are not connected together but secured by means of knots to the pegs of one of the rods. On these ropes, straws 6 or the like are laid which bear below against the frame 2 and are secured to the tight ropes 5 by means of strings 7, the ends of which are secured to the same pegs as the tight ropes 5; then the operator gathers by means of the strings 7, each time a few straws 6, and turns the strings around the tight ropes 5, whereby the straws are pullel together and secured rigidly to the ropes 5. In this manner the operation is continued on the whole length of all the ropes 5, until the rod is again reached at which the binding of the straws had begun. In order to prevent the ends of the straws 6 from placing them- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

selves at the bottom, by the side of the frame 2 the wire 4 has been secured to the frame work, this wire serving as a support for the ends of the straws. Then the binding of the straws'is finished the protecting roof A is removed from the framework B, this removal being carried out by raising the initial and terminal knots of the ropes from the plns and by slipping them from the latter.

In order to enable the roof A to be secured to haystacks or the like parts of the lowermost and the uppermost strings 7, are left free either at the beginning or the end, during the binding of the straws, a shorter piece 8 being left free at the lowermost string, and a longer piece 9 at the uppermost string. Pegs 10 are secured to the ends of these three pieces. In order to fix the protecting roof A on the hay stack C, Fig. 4L, the edge 11 of the roof which carries the string ends 8 and 9 is placed over the other edge 12, whereaft-er the lower rope end 8 is lead obliquely downward and the peg 10 bored into the hay-stack; the upper string end 9 is then turned around the roof in spiral fashion, and also lead downward, whereafter the peg 10 is bored either into the haystack or into the ground.

Having now fully described my said invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A protecting roof of the kind described comprising a plurality of straws, means for connecting the said straws together at several places of their length so that the whole structure assumes the shape of a conic surface cut open along one of its generatrixes, a shorter string secured to one of the edges of said roof and alonger string secured to the other edge of said roof and pegs secured to the ends of said strings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A process for manufacturing protecting roofs of the kind described, consisting in tightening around aframework composed of rods secured together at the summit and secured at the bottom to a frame, a plurality of ropes in parallel relation to the said frame and securing same to pegs secured in the said rods, placing straws on the said ropes, securing the said straws to the said ropes by means of strings twisted around edges, and securing pegs to the ends of said Witnesses:

a few straws and the said ropes leaving a In testimony whereof I have hereunto set.

longer end of the said strings projecting at my handin presenceof two Witnesses. the top of one of the ed 'es of the said roof r i and a shorter end at the bottom of the said .E 4 A ends of strings, substantially as and for the MILOSLAV HR BY, purpose set forth. p 'ADOLPH FIRCHE.

Gopies'ot this patent may be obtained for five cents eaehQby addressing the Commissioner oi Patents. Washington, D. G. 

